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Senate Democrats Will Filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee No Matter Who It Is
Life News ^ | January 30, 2017 | STEVEN ERTELT

Posted on 01/30/2017 11:46:47 AM PST by NYer

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To: rdl6989
"Go nuclear."

Having been without any for such a long time, the Republican senators will need a supply of these in extra-extra-large.

41 posted on 01/30/2017 12:06:15 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: NYer

Stop the debate, go nuclear, and approve him or her. if they’re qualified, of course. Put an end to that nonsense.

Once things are settled down in a year or so, pass a LAW that requires a specific majority for certain positions, but not until the important appointments and nominees are approved.


42 posted on 01/30/2017 12:06:18 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

We the People are so sick of having to deal with these obstructionist traitors. We’d go there with pitchforks but we also know that seems to be what they want ~ confrontation. What to do...........


43 posted on 01/30/2017 12:06:49 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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To: NYer

No problem, break out the nuclear option. And McStain and Linda Graham HAD BETTER fall in line!


44 posted on 01/30/2017 12:07:49 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: NYer

Another point worth making is that there’s no law that says the Supreme Court must have 9 members. Trump can appoint 3 people and have an 11-member court if he wants. Yes there’ll be backlash about “stacking the court”, but it is legal.


45 posted on 01/30/2017 12:07:54 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( More and More Winning! ))))
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To: tumblindice
"“On the first day of the new session in January, the senators will have a unique opportunity to change the filibuster rule with a majority vote, rather than the normal two-thirds vote."

Fauxcahontas is totally retarded. Mondale changed the 2/3s to 60% decades ago.

Who would make EVER her a perfesser?

46 posted on 01/30/2017 12:08:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: NYer

Fools....It won’t happen. two cases have already burned Obama with just 8 judges. 9 judges changes the odds.


47 posted on 01/30/2017 12:08:59 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: NYer

Wow. I’m shocked!
Said no one ever.


48 posted on 01/30/2017 12:09:41 PM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: NYer

Wasn’t there an ELECTION...didn’t the people express their choices. Then why can’t Washington D.C. move forward with the choices that the people had made at ballot boxes. Why stall? Why obstruct..


49 posted on 01/30/2017 12:09:55 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: TBP

There’s an unwritten rule....no judge appointments in the last year...and that’s an old dem rule...


50 posted on 01/30/2017 12:10:14 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Two Kids' Dad

DJT told us to Think Big!

Increasing the size of the SC is an idea I have been waiting to email the WH about. Maybe NOW is the time to do it.

11? How about we DOUBLE the size. Strike while the iron’s hot!


51 posted on 01/30/2017 12:10:48 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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52 posted on 01/30/2017 12:15:34 PM PST by doug from upland (Are we dreaming or is Hillary finally really gone?)
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To: NYer

Garland—together with Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, and Breyer—would have been a DISASTER!!!!

The Dims must not be allowed to block or delay our President’s appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice in the tradition of Antonin Scalia!!!!


53 posted on 01/30/2017 12:22:17 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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54 posted on 01/30/2017 12:24:49 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Ann Coulter should be the nominee. Make the Dems’s heads explode before they even start to filibuster.


55 posted on 01/30/2017 12:26:41 PM PST by UnChained (Revelation 13:7)
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The Democrat Thug Party


56 posted on 01/30/2017 12:49:33 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Boogieman

No skeletons but I heard he put on some weight while in the Hanoi Hilton, the only POW to do so.


57 posted on 01/30/2017 1:00:52 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Pearls Before Swine

You didn’t answer the question.


58 posted on 01/30/2017 1:03:19 PM PST by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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To: rdl6989

Go nuclear and appoint Janice Rogers Brown. There will be some entertainment value in seeing the Dem’s try to lynch a highly qualified black woman only to have her jammed down their throats on a party line vote. Then the Republicans can claim credit for the first black woman on the Court.


59 posted on 01/30/2017 1:18:38 PM PST by TheConservativeBanker
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To: rdl6989

I have a different theory...I am not in favor of the nuclear option, because it will inevitably bite you the next time the Dems hold the Presidency.

So I think they should allow the filibuster, but the old fashioned way...make ‘em talk 24/7. Bring Washington legislation to a halt. Make it *the* 2018 campaign issue, with 25 Democrat Senator seats up for grabs. If they somehow wrangle a recess, fill it with a recess appointment. If, after the 2018 election, 60 Senators are still not reached for the Republicans, then consider going nuclear.


60 posted on 01/30/2017 1:18:46 PM PST by XEHRpa
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